The spell-off option: Historically, the competition ends when a speller spells correctly in a one-person, one-word round and is declared the champion. Indian American Karthik Nemmani is the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee winner(May 31, 2018) All other rounds of the competition will consist of traditional oral spelling. The speller must answer correctly within the time limit to move on to the next round of competition. The speller will have 30 seconds to view the question and the three answer choices. Questions have been prepared by noted linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer, language columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Word meaning: The second round of each level of the competition – the preliminaries, quarterfinals, semifinals and finals – will be a word meaning round, which will require the speller to orally select the correct multiple choice answer to a vocabulary question read by the pronouncer. The new elements of the 2021 competition will work like this: READ: Seven Indian Americans among eight co-champions of National Spelling Bee (May 31, 2019) €œThe spell-off, if activated, promises to be a gripping moment for both the spellers onstage during the finals and audiences on the edges of their seats at home.†€œThe Bee’s competition format this year – inspired by proactive safety measures as the pandemic evolves – has allowed us to introduce new competition elements, aligned with our regular program review to ensure the competition continues to mature in a way that appropriately challenges the most accomplished spellers in the country,†said Durnil. The spell-off would be activated in the closing minutes of the July 8 finals if a champion has not yet been declared in a traditional, one-person, one-word round. €œThough the word meaning rounds will be a familiar challenge to the students competing at the national level, this is the first time they will have the opportunity to showcase the full scope of their language mastery in front of audiences,†he said.ĭuring the in-person July 8 finals, the Bee will have the option to activate a spell-off if needed. READ: For the first time since World War II, there won’t be a Scripps National Spelling Bee champ this year(April 21, 2020) €œOur renewed focus on this element in the live broadcasts this year underscores the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s longstanding commitment to promoting learning at all levels and the Scripps mission of creating a better-informed world.†Michael Durnil, executive director of the Bee. €œJust as with spelling, word meaning is core to students’ understanding of the English language,†said Dr. The fourth and final round of the competition, featuring 10-12 accomplished spellers, will be hosted in person at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, on July 8 and broadcast live in primetime on ESPN2. The first three rounds of the national competition will be conducted virtually and broadcast live on ESPN platforms beginning June 12 with the preliminaries, followed by the June 15 quarterfinals and concluding June 27 with the semifinals. The 2021 competition marks the first time a word meaning component has been featured in the live broadcast of the competition, though vocabulary questions have been used in past years in the form of a written test. RELATED: 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee season to launch June 12 (April 6, 2021) Word meaning will be part of each round of the national competition, designed to challenge the Bee’s national competitors and further advance the program’s focus on word knowledge and literacy, according to a press release. 2021 Bee to feature a word meaning component in the live broadcast for the first time.įollow Scripps National Spelling Bee, America’s largest and longest-running educational program dominated for a dozen years by Indian Americans, will introduce new elements to its nationally broadcast competition this year.Īs the competition returns to television screens across the country after a year of hiatus due to Covid-19 pandemic in a new format, it will introduce word meaning, an oral vocabulary component, to its live national broadcasts, the Bee announced Tuesday.
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